"Quitting smoking now greatly reduces one’s health risk" reads the surgeon’s warning on a pack of Marlboro red cigarettes, yet people are still smoking everyday despite the surgeon’s warning. For years the FDA, Food and Drug Administration, has tried to reduce the number of smokers each year by implementing higher taxes on cigarettes, regulating advertisement aimed at children, curbing the smoking age to eighteen years old, and banning cigarette vending machines. But …showed first 75 words of 1748 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1748 total…garner more votes during election year. Both sides of the story are accurate when saying that cigarettes are harmful to one’s health. But what people do not understand is increasing the taxes will not prevent people from smoking, but it will only reduce the likeliness that they will. And that should be the main concern of both officials and tobacco firms because in the end, its people’s lives that we are dealing with.